Narooma High School’s robotics team, the RoboRebels, has qualified to attend the World Championships for the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition to be held in Houston Texas in April 2023.

Qualification came after competing successfully in the South Pacific Regional FIRST Robotics Competition held in Wollongong over three days this March.

It is quite an achievement to qualify to attend the World Championships for the FIRST Robotics Competition to be held in Houston, Texas in April 2023.

The team has been working after school twice a week and every Sunday since January to design, build and program their 2023 competition robot. For this competition the team focussed on coding the robot to achieve a specific task: to balance itself on a see saw bridge.

Now the team is seeking financial support to help make the dream of travelling to the international competition a reality. Your dontation willl assist in the many costs involved in travelling abroad. Lets get behind this young team and the teachers supporting them and make it happen!

RoboRebels FRC team 2023 is a group of 5 students aged from 16 to 18, with a passion for science and technology, completely engaged in robotics and with their eyes on the future of this field. Team members have run holiday robotics camps to raise funds, attended local community technology events and for the last two years have run a Science Day Expo at Narooma High School to showcase emerging technologies and provide hands on science-based opportunities for local Primary School students.

The RoboRebels were formed in 2015 following the successful receipt of a grant from Google, FIRST, Macquarie University and Ford. The team was formed with a view to Inspire young people to grow a love of science and technology.

Since 2015 the students of the RoboRebels have shared a love of STEM with over 1,000 young people from across Narooma’s feeder schools on the South Coast of NSW.